Jean-Pierre Bemba

The 2008 arrest of his rival Jean-Pierre Bemba by the International Criminal Court weakened the MLC...

At the 2011 polls Kabila will be helped by the fact that his main rival in 2006 Jean-Pierre Bemba is held by the ICC...

As eyes turn to Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's handling of cases against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba and the authors of Kenya's 2007 post-election violence a South Korean judge runs things behind the scenes at the International Criminal Court...

In 2000-03 Dongo was part of the territory controlled by the MLC under Jean-Pierre Bemba who went off to become Vice-President in Kinshasa leaving many of his fighters at loose ends...

Bitter memories persist of Patassé's decade in office: mutinies economic mismanagement - and the disastrous military alliance with Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo and ex-Vice-President of neighbouring Congo-Kinshasa...

Angolan instructors trained the nucleus of his army and gendarmerie and (diplomats say) helped to suppress Jean-Pierre Bemba's uprising in March 2007...

Congolese former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo could soon be freed by the International Criminal Court...

In 2007 Angolan troops helped Kabila's Republican Guard in its fight with Jean-Pierre Bemba's militia so Kabila owes Angola a debt...

UN soldiers are often reluctant to start a fight and have several times (in Rutshuru and even in Kinshasa when Jean-Pierre Bemba's men confronted Kabila's Republican Guard) stood aside...

Joseph Kabila's rival Jean-Pierre Bemba is in The Hague awaiting trial by the International Criminal Court; the Secretary General of his Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) François Mwamba rightly described Gizenga's departure as an 'admission of failure'...

Melmot points out that instead of giving priority to restructuring and reform of the security services the government first sent its troops in March 2007 to wipe out Jean-Pierre Bemba's militia then in September-December to fight Nkunda in North Kivu...